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  • R Rage

    if (life == ToBe)
    return Question
    else if (life != ToBe)
    return Question

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    KP Lee
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    #36

    You still get the credit, but I like:

    if (ToBe || !ToBe) return ThatIStheQuestion

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    • M Marc Clifton

      And in Haiku:

      double myTrouble;
      if (sheFindsOut(myTrouble))
      {
      SummerDaysAreGone();
      }

      Marc

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      randomusic
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      Good one, a 5-7-5 haiku

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      • R Rage

        Seems like you are slightly getting all the subtleties of Shakespeare's genius ;P OTOH, it is disastrous to see how the best translation in programming language, namely return Question; ( as you very correctly pointed out ) completely ruins the effect.

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        Luiz Monad
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        From that we can conclude that life is random, and dont affect the result of question. that is: from where we come from? where are we? and where are we going to?

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        • R Rage

          if (life == ToBe)
          return Question
          else if (life != ToBe)
          return Question

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          fatman45
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          #39

          How about:

          Question = life ? ToBe : !ToBe;

          Da Bomb

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          • N Norman Dziedzic

            Question = (2 * b) || !(2 * b); Is a nicer form but still only = Question; Then again Wit.soul = brevity;

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            AspDotNetDev
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            #40

            Repost! :-D

            Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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            • A Andrew Rissing

              A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:

              float myhope;
              float mypride;
              if (myhope is Empty)
              Goto ZeroDivide;

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              AspDotNetDev
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              #41

              {O, Row(Me, 0), Row(Me, 0)}.Where((fore) => Art("Thou"))

              Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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              • A Andrew Rissing

                A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:

                float myhope;
                float mypride;
                if (myhope is Empty)
                Goto ZeroDivide;

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                User 8585015
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                #42

                while : # rickiT :Sleep For zzz = 1 To 3 Next zzz GoTo Sleep rickiT 2012

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                • A Andrew Rissing

                  A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:

                  float myhope;
                  float mypride;
                  if (myhope is Empty)
                  Goto ZeroDivide;

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                  Jenny Quinn
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                  #43

                  dim seeTree as boolean = false
                  if seeTree then
                  dim poem as string = "this poem is as lovely as a tree"
                  end if

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                  • A Andrew Rissing

                    A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:

                    float myhope;
                    float mypride;
                    if (myhope is Empty)
                    Goto ZeroDivide;

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                    Jeffrey Knight
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                    #!/bin/bash #-------- # For Agnes #-------- # A poem in bash on Mac # Tue Feb 7 15:01:01 EST 2012 # Jeffrey Knight for you_Agnes in `which time`; do find /if_you_can/ \ \ "there is nothing, Agnes" 2> be_done; until [[ $you = **know** ]]; do you="know `whoami` ?"; look " my Agnes ... "; if [ "only" == "you could ..." ]; then id rejoice; patch false hopes; fi; my_fate="is sealed"; from nothing 2> nothing; done; done; say -v Agnes $my_fate #and be clear

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                    • R Rage

                      if (life == ToBe)
                      return Question
                      else if (life != ToBe)
                      return Question

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                      Nick Alexeev
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                      0x2B || !0x2B Saw it in the book somewhere. No, it wasn't Shakespeare, it was an embedded firmware book.

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